Parent, partner and professional — the need to fulfill all of these roles at once complicates Vanessa Bal’s life.

A half-hour-long ‘playdate’ between a toddler and an adult could help answer a long-standing question about the social deficits that accompany autism.

Adults with autism, particularly women, deliberately hurt themselves much more often than other adults do.

A woman claims that a genetic test failed to flag her son’s deadly condition, a researcher wins a rare appeal of a rejected grant application, and a graduate student’s gadget could help people with autism to read emotions.

Helping children with autism cope with the unexpected may ease some of their symptoms.